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Marianna Bolognesi starts as a research associate at Oxford University

Marianna Bolognesi, coordinator of the Metaphor Lab research theme Metaphor and Multimodality, starts to work as a research associate at the University of Oxford, within the Creative Multilingualism program, on the Metaphor strand: http://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/research/metaphor.

Creative Multilingualism is a research program led by the University of Oxford and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Open World Research Initiative.

Article on Deliberate Metaphor Theory in Chinese journal Modern Foreign Languages

Recently, a paper introducing Deliberate Metaphor Theory came out in Modern Foreign Languages, a leading Chinese academic journal published by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, by Professor Sun Yi.

The Chinese title of the paper could be translated as “The academic evolution of deliberate metaphor theory“.

A parallel interview with Gibbs and Steen

Raymond Gibbs and Gerard Steen co-edited the volume Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics (1999), co-authored the article “Questions about metaphor in literature” (2004) and collaborated in the Pragglejaz Group research developing a metaphor identification procedure known as MIP (“MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically-used words in discourse”, Pragglejaz Group, 2007).

These two distinguished metaphor scholars from different academic fields, whose research converges in some respects but diverges in others, kindly took time to share their views on metaphor in this parallel interview, answering the 21 questions independently from each other on John Benjamins’ e-Platform.

Current research

The advisory board members of the Metaphor Lab each write a short blog about their current research on metaphor.

This time, Chiua Xu writes about the argumentative function of metaphor in argumentation.

Metaphor is often used in daily communication. A number of studies focus on how metaphor may enhance the persuasive power of discourse (e.g. Cameron & Deignan, 2006; Charteris-Black, 2011; Hauser & Schwarz, 2014). But since these studies approach to metaphor from a purely rhetorical perspective, the question as to how metaphor is used in argumentation remains unanswered. In our research, we study metaphor from the perspective of a rational discussion, focusing on questions such as: What representations do metaphors have in argumentation? How do metaphorical expressions function in different types of arguments? In this blog, I discuss three projects that focus on these issues.

Read the blog here.

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Preliminary program Metaphor Festival online!

The preliminary program for the Metaphor Festival is online!
The program includes two plenary lectures (by Kathleen Ahrens and Alan Cienki), 75 presentations and five workshops. Moreover, there is enough time to catch up, meet new people and talk metaphor over lunch, dinner and drinks.

Haven’t you made up your mind yet about coming to the Metaphor Festival Amsterdam? Have a look at the program and register!